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Everyone Needs to Relax About the Oxford Comma

If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it unnecessary]. The Oxford comma, you see, isn’t just any old comma—it’s the comma that maintains lexical order and keeps things readable, or so its proponents believe. It warrants a capital O, for chrissakes. There